Disaster Hits

Well, we were having such a great day.  So much so that I decided to bring back a few of the things they love to play on.

And then I walked in on this...our septic backed up and overflowed into the laundry room.  So I am freaking!  Called Mark and told him to hurry back from wherever he was.  EMERGENCY!!  I yelled for Michael to come downstairs and watch the yahoos while I gowned up, masked up, gloved up, and covered up my nose so I would stop gagging.  I took all of our old towels and went to work cleaning up the sewage.  Oh my gosh!!!!

Mark immediately got ahold of ICON.    They were at our front door within an hour!

I was trying to figure out how in the world were we ever going to continue with Wammyville?

Ian cleaned everything.  It smelled so nice.  And looked way better.  He had to take up a section of carpet and tore up some baseboard and drywall on both sides of the affected wall.  He was so kind and patient with all the questions.

He explained what he had done.  Showed them all his machines in his big black case.

So this is what we ended up with at the end of the day...a humidifier and two very large and loud fans...for three days.

There are raw metal edges that might cut little fingers and certainly big loud machines that would not be a good idea to play with.  So what to do to keep the inquisitive yahoos away from all of this stuff?

You first rearrange furniture then your borrow plywood to block off the area.

And you move some heavy furniture in front of the walkway and hope they don't figure out that there might be a small opening at the bottom that they might be able to get through.

Oh and I forgot to mention that we weren't allowed to use the water or flush.  Now just think about it...yahoos and three adults under one roof.  Please!  One of the moms very graciously dropped off enough water for this crew to use for the next few days.

Then you get in touch with Gullett Sanitation to see if they can figure out what the issue is before you go digging up the front yard...again!

It wasn't long before there was a knock on the door.  The mystery has been solved.  Can you even guess?  Hold for a minute...the problem was two-fold.  The tank had frozen water and then frozen toilet paper that wasn't able to go into the tank.  In other words, there is an excess of toilet paper usage in Wammyville.  When he told me this he just chuckled.  The good news is we could now flush and let the water run in the drain.  Thank you, Jesus.

We might have had a little toilet paper usage lesson during Preschool.

Insurance came and had a look.  It has been decided that we need all new carpet and a new paint job.  Now the question is...when does this all happen?  If we do it during Wammyville time what do we do with all the yahoos?  Our thinking is Spring Break.  The village of Wammyville has come to the rescue once again.  All hands on deck!

Now, where is that punch list?